Conneaut School District Rolls Out Blended Learning and Cyber Schools with My Big Campus
School / District: Conneaut School District
State: Pennsylvania
District Size: 2,400 students
Solution: My Big Campus
Focus: Blended Learning, Cyber Schools
Students have more options about where and how to attend school, and Conneaut School District in PA is giving its students a new reason to stay in the district and stay engaged in learning: cyber schooling.
Conneaut School District is implementing cyber schools to provide a blended learning option to students. By incorporating its own curriculum into My Big Campus, the district allows staff, teachers, and students to learn, collaborate and communicate in an engaging 24/7 online environment.
Sweetwater County Teachers and Students Learn Collaboratively
with My Big Campus
School / District: Sweetwater County SD #1
State: Wyoming
District Size: 5,000+ students
Solution: My Big Campus, Collaborative Web Filter
Focus: Collaboration, PLNs
Sweetwater County School District faces a lot of the challenges other districts face: students dispersed across 13 schools (including 2 rural buildings); increasing demands for access and collaboration combined with mounting pressure for safety and security; the need to make sure students are leaving school prepared for the digital world that exists beyond the campus; and the need to provide teachers with the resources and connections to enhance their own professional development.
My Big Campus gives the district access to resources and tools to improve education for the students and professional development for the staff, promoting learning in a digital age without giving up safety and security.
Ladysmith Keeps Mobile Users Safe and Mobile Laptops Secure with the Lightspeed Mobile Filter
School / District: Ladysmith School District
State: Wisconsin
District Size: 1,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Mobile filtering, spam filtering, Educational Video Library
Just ten years ago, only a handful of the Ladysmith staff even used email. Today, the school keeps pace with the way users learn and communicate by offering mobile devices, student and parent portals, and email accounts.
But to be sure that opening the doors to mobile learning keeps technology use safe, secure, and efficient, the district relies on the Lightspeed Suite for mobile filtering, spam blocking, safe video access, and more.
The School District of Cambridge Gets Granular Control Over Its Filtering with the Lightspeed Suite
School / District: School District of Cambridge
State: Wisconsin
District Size: 900 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Filtering, Mobile Filtering
The School District of Cambridge relies on content filtering to ensure CIPA compliance, student safety, productivity, and security. But beyond simply blocking inappropriate content, features like flexible policies, granular controls, mobile filtering, proxy blocking, and reporting are what make a content filter really work for a district. With the Lightspeed Suite, the district has the granular control it needs to enforce its policies and the features it needs to balance learning, teaching, and safety on its network.
Northern Humboldt Gets Granular with the Lightspeed Suite
School / District: Northern Humboldt Union School District
State: California
District Size: 1,600 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Content Filtering, Spam Filtering, Consolidation
Composed of two four-year high schools, two small continuation high schools, one charter school, one alternative high school, one mental health high school program, and one adult school, the small high school-only district of Northern Humboldt prides itself on its ability to focus on the needs of students, the professional development of staff, and the ability to deliver first-class services. The district’s goal is to “provide students with the knowledge and skills needed in an information society”—making access to safe, educational online resources critical.
Friess Lake Extends the Classroom to Safe, Collaborative Online Learning with My Big Campus
School / District: Friess Lake School District
State: Wisconsin
District Size: 300 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: My Big Campus, Filtering
Now that the Friess Lake school district in rural Wisconsin has a better Internet connection, students and staff are reaping the benefits of more web-based content, including online testing, an online library system, and an online encyclopedia. My Big Campus from Lightspeed Systems is giving them an online extension of classroom learning, helping staff, teachers, and students communicate and share more effectively.
Telfair Gets a Seamless Single Sign-On Solution for Filtering and Collaborating
School / District: Telfair County School District
State: Georgia
District Size: 1,800 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Lightspeed Rockets
Focus: Filtering, My Big Campus, Power Manager
District technology teams are responsible for keeping the network and its devices running, providing access to learning tools online, and making sure end users have an easy, efficient experience. And like many school districts, the Telfair County School District technology staff is a person rather than a team—making ease-of-use and time-savings essential elements to any network solution. With the Lightspeed Suite and the Lightspeed Rocket appliances, Telfair is able to deliver more services to its users, while saving money, saving time, and streamlining user access with an integrated single sign-on solution.
Campbellsport Eliminates IT Headaches, While Lowering IT Expenses
School / District: Campbellsport School District
State: Wisconsin
District Size: 1,500 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Email Archiving, Filtering, Spam Blocking, Bandwidth Management
The Campbellsport School District IT team serves three locations, providing safe, secure, and reliable email access. As requirements and their corresponding costs and administrative duties increased, the district sought a solution that would provide more features without adding more headaches. The Lightspeed Suite gives the district an all-in-one solution for email archiving, filtering, antivirus, bandwidth management, spam blocking and more—cutting IT expenses while simplifying IT administration.
Atlanta ISD Gets Connected with My Big Campus
School / District: Atlanta ISD
State: Texas
District Size: 1,800 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: My Big Campus
Like everything in Texas, the education-technology goals at Atlanta ISD are big. And thanks to a couple of grants, the district is making them a reality. Having received two Vision 2020 grants, grades 7 through 12 are 1to1 with Apple MacBooks; now, armed with a Connections grant, the district is bringing in more technology, more professional development, and more tools—all to establish itself as a model for the exemplary use of digital content, interactive media, and educational technology for increased student learning.
The Lightspeed Suite Saves IT Staff Time at Farmington School District
School / District: Farmington R-7 School District
State: Missouri
District Size: 1,250 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Filtering
Recognizing that technology is critical to progressive learning and to preparing students for their futures, the district relies on its network as a means to give students access to information, tools, and resources that can enhance their educations. But the district also recognizes the need for CIPA compliance, safety, and security—and faces the constraints of tight resources. The Lightspeed Suite helps the district secure the network and safeguard users from dangerous or inappropriate content, while minimizing the time spent administering the solution.
Fremont School District Filters, Secures, and Saves—both Time and Money—with the Lightspeed Suite and Power Management
School / District: Fremont County School District
State: Wyoming
District Size: 193 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Power Management
Focus: Filtering, Mobile Filtering, Power Management
The small Fremont School District in Wyoming has just 193 students. But with the small district comes a small IT team, tasked with keeping the network filtered, secure, optimized, and available for research, learning, and online classes. With the Lightspeed Suite and Power Management, the district is saving time and money—while also ensuring that students and computers are protected.
Shelley School District Controls Network Activity with the Lightspeed Suite
School / District: Shelley School District 60
State: Idaho
District Size: 21,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Filtering, Firewall, Mobile Filtering, Email Archiving, Reporting
The Shelley School District in Shelley, ID may be rural, but the technology department provides its students with tools and services that are far from small potatoes. While ensuring that the school’s 1,300 computers are used for educationally-valid purposes, the department also needs to be able to give its network users access to the sites and resources that will help them teach and learn. Thanks to the power and flexibility of the Lightspeed Suite, the Shelley network is secured; the students are safe from inappropriate content; the resources are protected; and the students and staff benefit from the growing feature set, designed to deliver safe online learning opportunities.
Birdville Implements an Innovative Filtering Policy—with an Innovative Filter
School / District: Birdville Independent School District
State: Texas
District Size: 23,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Lightspeed Rockets
Focus: Filtering
Birdville ISD’s 33 campuses serve several cities in Texas. The district’s network provides the link between students and online learning applications, resources, and more. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires that all schools that receive erate funding use a filter to block kids from accessing pornographic or harmful content. But beyond that, schools have a lot of leeway to determine how far they should go with filtering, and how they will balance filtering with allowing access to educational materials and tools on the Web. Birdville Independent School District in Texas allows students open access to most of the Internet, including Web 2.0 tools and social media—and does it safely with the Lightspeed Suite.
Memphis ISD Searches…and Finds Antivirus Protection Plus Complete Network Management
School / District: Memphis ISD
State: Texas
District Size: 560 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Antivirus
Memphis Independent School District in the small town of Memphis, TX prides itself on being able to provide top-notch, big-city technology services to its students. After all, as David Calabrese, Technology Director, sees it, the technology allows its users to see, learn from, and enjoy the rest of the world outside of their small town. David helps the district’s computers take students on virtual museum tours and faraway field trips “by having solutions in place, like the Lightspeed Suite, that keep our computers and network running properly so we don’t have to worry about things like viruses and inappropriate web sites.”
My Big Campus Delivers on the Rye Neck Mission: Safe and Effective Online Learning Environments
School / District: Rye Neck Union FSD
State: New York
District Size: 1,500 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Web Filter, My Big Campus
Focus: Web 2.0
The technology department at Rye Neck Union Free School District in New York has a mission: to create safe and effective online learning environments. But having computers available is just the first step: Rye Neck needed a safe way to utilize that technology to engage and motivate students using their favored medium—the Internet and social networking. My Big Campus gives Rye Neck the safe environment for collaboration it needed.
Panama Buena Vista Saves $60,000 in One Year with Lightspeed Power Management
School / District: Panama Buena Vista
State: California
District Size: 16,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Power Management
Focus: Power management, Web filtering, Spam filtering
In the Panama Buena Vista school district in southern California, technology is central to both instruction and student services. The K-8 district uses desktop and laptop computers to deliver curriculum and instruction, to provide student services, and to perform business tasks. Recognizing the benefits technology can bring to education, the district has equipped teachers with laptops and whiteboards; created mobile labs with carts of laptops that are brought into classrooms for students; and centralized student information management for administrators.
IU 13 Provides Flexible, Customizable Filtering to the Districts It Services
School / District: IU 13
State: Pennsylvania
District Size: 35,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Educational Resource Library
Focus: Filtering, Proxies, Web 2.0
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU 13) is a regional educational service agency that
partners with the 22 school districts in Lancaster and Lebanon counties to provide costeffective
school-based services. Among the services IU 13 provides to its districts is a WAN.
This service provides connectivity between school districts to encourage collaborative projects,
including distance learning and resource sharing, network design and management. It also
provides web filtering, to protect students from harmful materials on the Internet.
Franco-Nord Manages Its Limited-Bandwidth Network while Saving Time and Money
School / District: Franco Nord SD
State: Ontario, Canada
District Size: 3,200 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite, Power Management
Focus: Bandwidth, Power management
The Franco-Nord School District in Northern Ontario provides its users with Internet access over
a network that includes more than 1,500 computers. Like many districts, the IT department
has many different challenges, sometimes contradictory: providing users with access to
the Web, but managing traffic and maintaining access over limited bandwidth; opening up
valuable educational resources, but keeping students safe from inappropriate content; regularly
monitoring the network and users, and doing it all with limited time and resources.
Sierra Sands Keeps Students Safe–on the Web and on YouTube–with Lightspeed
School / District: Sierra Sands SD
State: California
District Size: 5,400 students
Solution: Web Filter, Educational Video Library
Focus: Filtering, Reporting, YouTube
As technology becomes an increasingly important part of students’ lives, the role of technology in schools will continue to grow as well. The Sierra Sands School District in southern California recognizes this, and its forward-thinking technology department knows that its job is about more than keeping the computers working—it’s about making the network a valuable tool for education.
Lincoln County Secures and Monitors Its Mac- Based Network with the Lightspeed Suite
School / District: Lincoln County SD #2
State: Wyoming
District Size: 2,500 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Mac security, Reporting
Lincoln County School District in rural Wyoming is intent on building students’ 21-st century skills by embracing modern technologies. With Smart Boards in nearly every classroom, a network that includes more than 1,000 Macintosh computers, and a focus on incorporating interactive learning, Lincoln County needed a network management solution that could be as comprehensive as the technology it utilizes; and as forward-thinking as its educational philosophies.
Carroll County Finds a Better Web Filter, and Gets a Whole Lot More
School / District: Carroll County
State: Georgia
District Size: 15,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Mobile/Desktop filtering, Support, Training
In order to ensure student safety, staff productivity, and CIPA compliance, schools need an
Internet filter to block inappropriate content. But over-blocking limits the educational power of
the Internet, while under-blocking opens up security risks. Facing the need for a more flexible
and more powerful content filter for their 4,500 workstations across 26 locations, Carroll County
Schools began a comprehensive search for a new solution.
Kenosha Beats the Spam and Spyware Battle with the Lightspeed Suite
School / District: Kenosha USD
State: Wisconsin
District Size: 23,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Spam management, Email archival, Mobile Filtering
For the students and staff in the Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin, the district-wide network provides access to the Internet, Student Information Systems, business systems, and more. With a large district comprised of 43 elementary, middle, high, and charter schools, the administrators of this network face the challenges of heavy traffic, many different users, and high email volume.
Willows Tackles Tight School Budgets with a Single Solution
School / District: Willows USD
State: California
District Size: 1,700 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: Filtering
In the small town of Willows, north of Sacramento, the challenges of managing a school network are multiplied by the limited resources: only two people manage the network that serves the approximately 1,700 students spread across four physical campuses and seven school sites.
Wisconsin District Virtualizes Successfully with NComputing and Lightspeed
School / District: Menomonee Falls SD
State: Wisconsin
District Size: 4,000 students
Solution: Lightspeed Suite
Focus: nComputing, Virtualization
A primary challenge in today’s schools is increasing computer access for students while living within the constraints of a tight, and sometimes dwindling, technology budget. One solution to this challenge is virtualization, which allows multiple students to access a single computer.